On the special directions of Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, the Additional Chief Secretary Punjab Shamail Ahmad Khawaja convened a meeting here today at ACS conference room to review the transitional challenges and evolve effective strategy to expedite ongoing development works under the City District Government Lahore. Lord Mayor Lahore Col. ® Mubashar Javed, Secretary Local Government and Community Development Muhammad Aslam Kamboh, Secretary Finance, Public Health Engineering Departments and Director General PHA Lahore Mian Shakeel Ahmad participated.
It was reiterated in the meeting that the elected local bodies throughout the province will try to complete the ongoing development schemes till the end of the current fiscal year at the utmost. For this purpose, all out measures to facilitate the local bodies will be taken through effective coordination among the relevant provincial departments and the district governments. The meeting also reviewed the bottlenecks and teething problems after transition of powers from provincial government to the local bodies and finalize deliberations for their solution so that the people of the province could be provided relief at their door steps as a top most priority by strengthening the newly elected set up at local level in the province.